It looks so good, keep it up! I think I have a problem with that tuft of hair at the front in that sprite, it looks bigger and/or looks odd than the tuft in your current avatar/icon and that idle sprite but that's probably just me.

Good news, this project isn't dead yet. I was just waiting for a day to post some previews. And that day is today! Showing of 4 screenshots and a GIF showing off Dirk's primary ability; Ice platforms! Sprite shown off in GIF is a placeholder and coding for it all done by Lach!

I really look forward to your Mario, I remember way back in the old days people were trying to sprite their own but never got far. Along with that, I also had the idea for a Mario with a SM64 like playstyle but it looks like you beat me to the punch, then again all I had was a concept and nothing more.

I'm still not dead, I really don't have anything in mind for character projects. I'm still don't know if I'm going back to working on Mario, so I apologize to people who were expecting me to get back to work on him after finish Dirk. Besides from that, I'm spriting many other things like the Phantom Ruby, giving the sprite mania and infinite vibes. Anyone can use it for their things.